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and several places in Maine. It seems to prefer mountain. 
slopes and hill sides. We have picked up the empty shell 
in numbers, on hill sides that had recently been burnt over, 
and the collector will often find clearings of this nature, 
that is where a light hardwood growth has been recent- 
ly burnt, a good collecting ground for the larger Helices, as 
the leaves under which they hide become burnt, and the 
snails are thus exposed, oftentimes uninjured. We extract 
the following from Binney’s Monograph of the Land 
Snails of the United States, p. 181: “On the third day 
of July, 1836, I discovered an individual of this species in 
the act of laying its eggs, in a damp place under a log. I 
* transferred them, with the animal, to a tin box filled with 
wet moss. The eggs were not much more than half as’ 
large as those of H. albolabris Say ; they were white, ad- 
hering together very slightly, flaccid, and apparently not 
entirely filled with fluid. During the succeeding night the 
number had increased to about fifty, and in a few hours 
they became full and distended. As the Snail now began 
to devour the eggs, I was obliged to remove it. On the 
twenty-ninth of July, all the eggs were hatched: the 
young snails had one whorl amila a half; the wnbilioas 
was open; the head and tentacles were bluish-black, and 
the other parts whitish and semi-transparent. They im- 
mediately began to feed, and made their first repast of the 
pellicles of the > SRS er e Et N 
just emerged. They grew rapidly, and @ 
before the middle of October, when they 
went into winter quarters, they had increas- 
ed their bulk four or five times, beyond 
their original measurement.” 
HELIX DENTIFERA Binney. (Figs. 6,7). 
Shell with spire flattened, convex below, 
